Caramel apple cheesecake cookies

Review by Lyndee:

Ingredients:

1 box caramel apple cake mix

1 small box instant cheesecake pudding mix

½ cup vegetable oil

2 eggs

¾ cup white chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350. Spray a cookie sheet or line with parchment paper.  Combine pudding, cake mix, oil and eggs in a medium bowl until dough forms. Mix in white chocolate chips.  Place balls of dough 2 inches apart on cookie sheet.  Bake for 8-10 minutes or until cookies began to brown.  Remove from oven and let cool. 

Saturday was a rainy day and of course, I got the urge to bake. I had wanted to try a new cookie recipe. I love everything apples and was excited when I found this one.  They were super easy to make. The hardest part was finding a caramel apple cake mix. I had to go to two stores, but that didn’t stop me, aka, the cookie monster.  I wasn’t super impressed with the raw dough when I tested it but the end result was awesome! Totally satisfied my sweet tooth and I will definitely make them again.

Apple Snicker Salad

Review by Lyndee

Grandma requested I bring a “simple salad” to Easter dinner.  This was just about as simple as possible and was a huge hit! It was easy to make, tasted great and was eaten up quickly. I have seen some variations where you add ½ cup of milk to the pudding and cool whip before mixing in the candy bar and apples.  I may try this next time. 

6 regular size Snickers Candy Bars or 12 snack size – I’m lazy and used 2 bags of Snickers Bites

4 medium apples I used Red Delicious

1 (5.1 oz.) package Vanilla Instant Pudding dry, do not prepare

1 (16 oz.) tub cool whip thawed to room temp

INSTRUCTIONS

Mix vanilla pudding packet and cool whip together until well combined. Chop up apples and Snickers into bite size pieces. Stir chopped apples and Snickers into pudding mixture. Chill for at least 1 hour before serving. If you like, you can drizzle with caramel topping.  

Apple Dump Cake

Review by Lyndee

I had never had apple dump cake but it looked easy enough. With the freak winter storm that hit Iowa last night, I was in the mood to bake.  I wish I could find the person that invented this cake and shake their hand.  They are brilliant and my hero.  This is amazing!

Ingredients:

2 can apple pie filling

1 yellow cake mix

2 sticks butter melted

Cinnamon

Nutmeg

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Spray a 9x13 pan.  Dump in the cans of apple pie filling.  Sprinkle with cinnamon and nutmeg.  Cover with the cake mix.  Pour on the melted butter.  Bake for 45 minutes or until the top turns golden brown.  Mine only took about 40 minutes to bake.  Serve warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.  Warning, your eyes may roll into the back of your head when you take your first bite.  It is so dang good.  And it makes the house smell awesome.  Winner, winner! 

Overnight apple oatmeal

Review by Lyndee:

Ingredients:

2 sliced apples

1/4 cup brown sugar

1 tsp cinnamon

Pinch of salt

2 cups of oatmeal

2 cups of milk

2 cups water

Place apples, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt in the bottom of the crockpot.  Do not stir.  Pour in oatmeal, milk and water.  Again, do not stir.  Cook overnight for 8 - 9 hours on low.

This was cheap, easy to make and smelled great in the morning. I eagerly got a bowl and dug in.  The first bite was delicious. And then I got a bite with apple. And the texture of the skin was nasty! I checked numerous recipes and none said whether or not to peel your apples.  Apparently, it’s a personal preference left open for the reader.  I would highly recommend peeling the apples though! You have a soft, mushy oatmeal and then you get this weird texture from the apple skin. I will try this again without the skins and I think it will be perfect.